What you’ll get from volunteering

Being a volunteer with SPES is an excellent way to indulge your passion for nature, spend time outdoors, and learn about our environment. You can develop useful skills, knowledge and confidence to further your academic and vocational pursuits while enjoying the beauty of Stanley Park.

In addition, volunteers enjoy:

Training – including expert walks, talks and workshops at low cost or no cost

Free admission to guided nature walks from Stanley Park Nature House on Lost Lagoon

Reduced membership fee

Who can volunteer?

You must meet certain criteria to become a volunteer at SPES:

Must be 14 years old to volunteer with SPES (we are strict about this)

Some positions will have higher age requirements

Educational requirements depending on the position

Experience – vocational and academic

Health and physical requirements – depending on the tasks

Most volunteer opportunities have minimum time commitment requirements while a select few are very short-term or indefinite-length positions.

Interesting and valuable tasks

We offer many different types of volunteer opportunities such as:

Nature Interpreter

Wildlife Monitor

Database assistant

Office administrator

Outdoor Education programs assistant

Invasive plant removal

General assistant

Not all positions will be available at all times. Please check the Volunteer Opportunitiespage and see if there are current positions that interest you.

Your expertise, skills, life experience, and commitment are invaluable. Without our many volunteers, SPES’s projects and outreach work wouldn’t be possible.